Feudal Society in Medieval France

Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I. The Governance of a Feudal State Feudal Policies

1. Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 1145

2. The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castleguard, 1200

3. The assignment of a new fief, 1201

4. Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 1201

5. Authorization to build a castle, 1206

6. An exemption to the castle policy, 1223

7. An allodial castle is feudalized, 1221

8. Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 1234

9. The repurchase of a fief, 1244

10. The great feudal inquest, 1249-1250

11. Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-1252

12. Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 1255

13. Authorization to acquire feudal property, 1260

14. Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 1291

15. Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257